SDCCD is on the advisory board of the Community College Consortium for Open
Educational Resources (CCCOER) and a member of the Open CourseWare Consortium.
The following updates are from Una Daly, Community College Outreach
Manager for the OCW Consortium Open …
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With recent announcements and events happening this week and over the next few
months, 2012 is shaping up to be an interesting OER year. CCCOER Staff
and board members will be involved in the following efforts and we invite you
to join us. Open Education Week March 5-10 March 5-10, 2012 has been named Open
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Last week, I presented at the Mid-Pacific ICT (MPICT) Conference in San
Francisco Open Education Revolution: From Open Access to Open Partcipation
highlighting new participatory models in open education and hung out with
fellow “geek” faculty from community colleges nationwide. We celebrated
the founding of the new California ICT Collaborative headed by Pierre Thierry
of [...]
In case you haven’t heard, I recently joined the Open Courseware (OCW)
Consortium as your Community College Outreach Manager. I’m excited and
honored to continue working with all of you on promoting open educational
resources (OER) to improve teaching and learning. I had the pleasure of
working with many of you while previously at the [...]
The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources welcomes all
colleges back to our fall webinar on 9/22 at 12:00 noon Pacific. Come celebrate
our OER success stories and renew your membership in this organization
committed to making education accessible to all through creating and sharing of
high-quality open educational resources. In addition to our [...]
Dr. Kit Nast, psychology instructor at Bishop State Community College, provides
more than 3 dozen videos of interviews of people in various careers to assist
students in choosing their life paths. For further assistance in this process,
faculty members from various institutions discuss the educational requirements
for various professions. Kit is constantly adding to these [...]
Dr Judy Baker, one of the founders of the Community College Consortium for Open
Educational Resources (CCCOER) was interviewed by Megan Driscoll of Education
Portal on the mission and progress of the organization. Dr. Baker,
dean of technology and innovation at Foothill College has over 20 years of
experience in education. She has managed instructional [...]
Our first community College Collaborative for Open Educational Resources
(CCCOER) quarterly meeting at a non-college venue was held at League of
Innovations 2011 in San Diego last Sunday. In addition to CCCOER
members from Anne Arundel College, Foothill-DeAnza College, Maricopa college in
Arizona, Rice University, and Tacoma Community College in Washington, we
had several interested [...]
From “Free Books: Why Not?” by Allen B. Downey - Reasons to consider authoring
a free textbook and suggestions about how… A free license is not just a
different way to distribute the same product; a book with a free license is a
fundamentally different product. Free books beget more free books in a way
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Going to the Innovations 2011 conference in San Diego? Join us for an
information-packed networking community College Collaborative for Open
Educational Resources (CCCOER) quarterly meeting. We will be sharing
demos of OER tools, facilitating a group discussion on best practices on open
courseware at your colleges and network with your peers. We have arranged
for [...]
